The MathFinance Newsletter, Edition 82, July 29 2003.
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The MathFinance Newsletter: Established November
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Editor: Dr. Uwe Wystup, Frankfurt MathFinance Institute
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In detail:
Applications are invited for a full-time, permanent, College Lectureship post in the Department of Statistics to commence within the academic year 2003/04.
Each candidate must complete an application form which must reach the Recruitment Office, Department of Human Resources, University College Cork, Ireland on or before Friday, 12 September 2003.
Selection Criteria for the postApplications are invited for a Chair in Mathematical Finance, with effect from 1st January 2004, or as soon as possible thereafter. The post is within the Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Physical Sciences, Imperial College London, based on the South Kensington campus.
The successful applicant will be expected to enhance and extend the research effort of the group. We welcome applications from people working in any area of the subject, which could include econometrics and data analysis as well as mathematical finance rooted in probability theory, optimization-based approaches or computational finance. The candidate will be expected to develop her or his research programme, to secure funding and to contribute to the activities of the section as outlined above, including developing her/his relationships with the industry. The candidate will also contribute to the Department's teaching programme possibly including ancillary teaching in other departments.
Further particulars of this appointment are onRobert Tompkins is a Professor of Finance at the Hochschule für Bankwirtschaft in Frankfurt. He is also an Honorary Professorship at the University of Warwick Business School. Dr. Tompkins was formerly the Head of International Quantitative Research at Kleinwort Benson Investment Management. Prior to this, he was the Futures and Options Specialist at Merrill Lynch, Europe and an Interest Rate Options Dealer and Currency Options Trader at two major Chicago banks. He has three degrees from the University of Chicago, including an MA in Quantitative Methods and an MBA (honours).
Robert has authored three books on Options and edited a book on exotic options "From Black Scholes to Black Holes". Robert is currently writing a series on Exotic Options, which appears in the Austrian Journal, Bank Archiv. Robert's current research interests include comparisons of established and emerging markets, volatility estimation and forecasting, implied volatility smile patterns and the hedging of exotic contingent claims.
Aim of the courseThis course covers the latest developments in the pricing and risk management of Exotic Derivatives. The first day examines state-of-the-art techniques for risk management and hedging the risks of exotic options, whilst in the second day these principles will be used to examine individual exotic option contracts. Each major type of exotic option is illustrated with a practical case study.
Course Programme:WBS Training use simple Pre and Post event strategies to enhance you're learning from our seminars and extend beyond the two days seminar to maximise your understanding
Pre-course Questionnaire:Enables delegates to inform the course trainers what they specifically require from this event, equally allowing the course trainer a prior knowledge of their audience.
Pre-course Reading:An exhaustive list of relevant papers for preparation and suggestions for future research. The reading allows delegates an incite into what the event shall actually focus on, however most importantly preparing delegates fully to maximise the event taking them to the academic point where the course material takes over.
Post- course service:An email contact with the course trainer to answer any follow up questions that may arise after the event.
Course Leader: Dr. Dariusz GatarekDr. Dariusz Gatarek is a Manager in the Capital Markets Group, in the Warsaw office. He has over 6 years of financial markets experience within the banking environment. Since joining Deloitte & Touche in 2002, Dariusz advises clients on how to manage financial risks, evaluating risk management strategies and setting hedging objectives. He is also a specialist in pricing of financial derivatives.
Prior to joining Deloitte &Touche, Dariusz spent 6 years with BRE Bank during which he created equity warrants in the Polish market and then was responsible for implementing modern risk measurement methods as Value at Risk. Before joining BRE Bank Dariusz served in the Faculty of Mathematics at University of New South Wales and in Polish Academy of Science, where he still is Associate Professor.
Dariusz has published a number of papers on financial models of which perhaps his work with Alan Brace and Marek Musiela on Brace-Gatarek-Musiela (BGM) models of interest rates dynamics is the most well-known. This model is used by leading investment banks worldwide and is becoming a benchmark model of interest rate derivatives. He also contributed to analytical methods for credit risk. He holds PhD and DSc in Applied Mathematics from Polish Academy of Sciences.
For the first time WBS Training can offer a unique opportunity for investment banks to spend two days in a fully interactive seminar with one of the Founding Fathers of the now infamous BGM Model. This course covers the latest developments in the pricing and risk management of Interest Rate Derivatives. Each major model is illustrated with a practical case study. All cases studies use real-world data.
Day OneCFOs, Treasurers and risk managers in companies which finance using asset-backed securities; investment professionals involved in managing ABS portfolios; officers in banks and other financial institutions who manage portfolios of CDOs and other asset-backed securities; dealers who trade CDOs and credit-linked notes.
Course Leader: Prof. Ian GiddyIan Giddy has taught finance at NYU, Columbia, Wharton, Chicago and in 35 countries during the past three decades. He was Director of International Fixed Income Research at Drexel Burnham Lambert from 1986 to 1989. The author of more than fifty articles on international finance, he has served at the International Monetary Fund and the U.S. Treasury and has been a consultant with numerous corporations and financial institutions in the U.S. and abroad. He is the author or co-author of The International Money Market, The Handbook of International Finance, Cases in International Finance, Global Financial Markets, Asset Securitization in Asia and The Hudson River Watertrail Guide.
Pre / Post Course Service:WBS Training use simple Pre and Post event strategies to enhance your learning from our seminars and extend beyond the two days seminar to maximise your understanding
Pre-course Questionnaire: Enables delegates to inform the course trainers what they specifically require from this event, equally allowing the course trainer a prior knowledge of their audience. Pre-course Reading: The reading allows delegates an incite into what the event shall actually focus on, however most importantly preparing delegates fully to maximise the event taking them to the academic point where the course material takes over. Post- course service: An email contact with the course trainer to answer any follow up questions that may arise after the event.
Aim of the CourseThe European asset-backed securities market has provided fertile ground for financial hybridization. Originating in a number of countries and legal frameworks, ABS deals - securities backed by assets that have been separated from their originator and placed in a special-purpose company - often demand specialized pricing, risk analysis and hedging. Synthetic and unfunded asset-backed securities make this need more pressing. This workshop will explore some of these variants, and explore their components from the standpoint of quantitative analysis. Participants will get involved in the details of a number of deals and have the opportunity to work in groups on hands-on applications.
Course Programme:Paul Wilmott is a financial consultant in derivatives, risk management and quantitative finance. He also trains bank personnel in these subjects. He is a Partner in a statistical arbitrage hedge fund, K2, which specializes in volatility trading. Dr Wilmott is the author of "Paul Wilmott Introduces Quantitative Finance" and "Paul Wilmott on Quantitative Finance." He has written over 100 research articles on finance and mathematics. Dr Wilmott also runs http://www.wilmott.com, the popular quantitative finance community website.
ContentA detailed course on the pricing and hedging of exotic derivatives, starting from the analysis of data to build up a vanilla pricing model and then extending this to over-the-counter products. We examine the mathematical modeling and the numerical aspects.
Many real-life term sheets will be analyzed. Delegates are encouraged to bring their own term sheets for discussion.
More InformationThe Swiss Society for Financial Market Research is again looking forward to provide a discussion platform for financial market researchers and practitioners on its 7th conference in Zürich. We would like to invite you, your colleagues and doctoral students to submit papers on all topic areas of financial market research by November 30, 2003. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome.
Papers must be in English, French or German. The cover page of the paper should contain the title, name, affiliation, address and e-mail address of the authors. The second page should contain the title and abstract, but not the name or affiliation of the authors. Please submit your paper electronically as .pdf, MS Word or postscript file via e-mail to mdiel@whu.edu. In case you are sending pdf-files, please provide a second file with an anonymous version of the paper (without the coversheet.). If electronic submission should not be possible, please send your paper in triplicate to:
Prof. Dr. Markus RudolfPlease find below the references that I found and that were mailed to me based on a query about American Options in Jump Diffusion Models. This list is unlikely to be complete or static. It is not ordered by any criterion than the arrival time at mathfinance.de. If you wish to add further references, please feel free to let me know. I would like to thank my readers for their active and productive participation in this survey.
The Credit Derivatives phenomenon since the expansion into the investment-banking sector now firmly finds itself in a worldwide boom. The advancements into quantitative modelling has left it almost impossible for professionals not to directly address this product to run along side the more traditional. The Mathematics of Credit Derivatives DVD / CD-ROM for the first time offers a worldwide audience a unique chance to view the Credit Derivatives arena via Philipp J.Schönbucher's twice fully sold out training event "The Mathematics of Credit Derivatives" Central London February 17th / 18th & 14th / 15th May 2003. This DVD will take the viewer from the basics of the Credit Derivatives through to intermediate and on to more advanced topics. The DVD is not however positioned just for high level quants teams but as the research is predominantly new will benefit academics and practitioners alike at all levels "I designed the course in such a way that there should be something in it for everybody" Schönbucher.
The 6 hour 3 DVD package encompasses the key topics from the 2-day seminar detailing the latest developments in the pricing and risk management of Credit Derivatives, with total audience interaction. The seminar examines in depth state-of-the-art techniques of modelling and hedging the risks of single-name credit derivatives, through to the most recent developments in the modelling and pricing of portfolio and basket credit risks.
A key tool of this package coupled with the DVD is the CD-ROM which includes excel spreadsheet case studies using real-world data (quoted prices, CD's rates, historical default rates), pre-course reading for each section and a printable copy of the complete course material from The Mathematics of Credit Derivatives training seminar.
Jacket Content:Dr. Philipp J. Schönbucher is assistant professor of Risk Management at the Department of Mathematics of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich. He holds degrees in mathematics (Oxford) and economics (Bonn) and a PhD in economics (Bonn). His publications include papers on credit risk modelling, credit derivatives pricing, stochastic volatility modelling, option pricing in illiquid markets, real options and term structure models. His main area of research is credit risk modelling and credit derivatives pricing in which he has been active since 1996. Furthermore, he is author of a book on "Credit Derivatives Pricing Models" (J. Wiley & Sons, 2003), and he is consultant and professional trainer to a number of leading financial institutions.
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